La Deuxieme | Goose Island Beer Co.

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Reviews by PorterLambic:

Arrives a nice, clear, ruby-color. Little bitty head, really just a film.
Smell is malt, oak, cherry and figs(?). Great balance.
Taste is malty, with dark fruits all over, alcohol note, hints of pepper in back, though more pronounced in the aftertaste.
Full-bodied and very smooth. Warming with a light effervescence. You really should drink one of these befroe you take the dirt nap. An amazing brew, almost as if the channelled Duchess du Borgogne and bumped the ABV up a bit.

More User Reviews:

Slightly too dark and creamy for the style. Looks almost like a stout. Aroma consists of dark fruits, caramel, and a pinch of citrus and spices. Taste is dark fruit, mainly plum and fig, as well as nugget and toffee. Slight alcohol warming. Light to medium mouthfeel. Overall, bland and unfinished. Disapointing.

(Served in a tulip glass)
This beer was served ice cold and hid some flavor until it had warmed a bit.

A-Thick creamy head with a dark opaque mahogany body.

S- sweet floral perfume smell but very clean when cold. A hint of dried fruit came out when it was warm.

T- Sweet maltyness with a bit of nugget flavor. There were some hints of sweet plum and lots of lemon, especially as it warmed. There was some tangy finishing notes. There were some phenol notes as it warmed aswell.

M- light mouthfeel with a slight alcohol warmth

D- This had a nice flavor but not near the flavors I had hoped for in a Belgian Strong. I think it needed to be fermented and served about 10-15 degrees cooler than what it was. It had quite a kid for the gentle alcohol warmth that came through.

Pours dark, dark ruby or garnet red with a tight off-white head. Spotty sheets of lace on the glass.
Aroma is highly spiced with light caramel and dark fruits and a fairly heavy dose of yeast.
Flavor is very spicy with a big coriander and yeast hit with some minor malty and fruity notes.
Mouthfeel is very Belgian but a little bit short on the finish. Spicy and decent malt but fell just kind of peters out towards the end instead of ending with a nice pronounced punch.
Drinkability is very high. Really hides the alcohol well.

on Tap at Goose Island. Pour is rich dark, reddish brown and transluscent. Smell is light alcohol, malt and belgian yeast. Taste is faintly malty and even more lightly tart with a hint of alcohol. Pretty bland, really. Just reminds me of the Matilda and Pere Jacques with its too subtle flavor.

Pours a hazy golden brown beer, with an average white head.
Aroma is pleasant but not as strong as I usually like on a dubbel, with notes of caramel and dark fruits.
Taste is more on the sweet side, with some caramel and dark fruits, lacking a bit of depth and complexity.
Nice, but nothing special.

- nose: lots of fruit, stirring up and nosing produces some grassiness from light hopping, slight funk
- taste: quick sharp acidic bite followed quickly by whole sour cherries and rhubarb finishes with a hint of carmely malt.
- appearance: solid medium to dark brown. Barely any bubbles on the head (from the pour I believe) but nice lacing. Chill haze dissipates as it warms but eve at cellar temp it retains some haze.
- mouthfeel: more comfortable slight acidic bite, medium to high carb also produces some prickliness on the palate
- drinkability; the fruitiness cleans up and finishes nicely.

Great experimental beer. Might benefit from some more malty balance to work off the strong fruity character.

Cask pull at the Clybourn brewpub on 5/14/2007-- if this was retired, it definitely isn't anymore.

Pours dark brown, nearly black, and headless.

The aroma is almost pure dark malt with some light belgian yeast character. Not as complex as I'd hoped.

Tastes like it smells, so singlemindedly malty that if it weren't for the slight fruity ester character, I'd have called it a bock. It's not exactly cloying, but it's sweet enough (and unbalanced enough) that finishing a tulip of this gets to be a chore. Alcohol asserts itself late palate, which normally works with this style, but in the context of the masive malty sweetness, it makes the beer even richer and harder to finish.

Mouthfeel is a little too thin for the way this beer assaults your palate with malt.

Had La Deuxieme in a tulip glass on tap at the Clybourn Brewpub. I'm not sure if they're using the same recipe as before but the current incarnation borders on a sour. The beer is relatively thick and finishes with a tart taste - I could certainly drink a couple of these.

I thought this years was good, had it on tap at Clyborne. Poured into a tulip style glass. Brownish orange/red color small head. Sweet malty-ness to it. A little of the alcohol taste comes but fades quickly to a smoother velvet taste.